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European School Holidays 2024-25

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Shamelessly lifted, once again, from Eric Bonnel:

https://twitter.com/ebonnel

Note that Mardi Gras / Fasching / Carnaval / Pancake Day is 4 March and Easter Sunday is 20 April 2025 - late!

Preceding year: https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?t=162546

More useful links:
Calendar: https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?year=2025&country=9
Austria: https://www.feiertage-oesterreich.at/schulferien/2025/
France: https://www.education.gouv.fr/media/119767/download
Germany: https://www.schulferien.org/deutschland/ferien/2024-2025/

NOTE: This is for winter 2024 - 2025

Thanks are due to @pepper67 for his/her sleuthing.
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I bet Ireland loves being in the UK column.
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@altis, Thanks! Time to start planning next years trips, avoiding the ankle-biters Toofy Grin snowHead

Nice long quiet stretch in March next year
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@altis,

Thank you - perfect timing!
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Utter carnage and chaos for UK half term twinned with Paris week.......
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red 27 wrote:
@altis, Thanks! Time to start planning next years trips, avoiding the ankle-biters Toofy Grin snowHead

Nice long quiet stretch in March next year

Except for Fasching in Austria.
In the first 2 weeks of February the Austrians have their school vacation, how crowded will it be?
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@drporat, I was thinking of w/c 8th, 15th and 22nd which all look good
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@red 27, will be a good time for me to return to Zillertal Arena
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Big thanks for already getting this up. It is super helpful. Can it be pinned to the top?

Looking how our kids holidays fall versus the masses... we can do 14th dec week. Should be quiet but will need altitude. And i don't love the short daylight hours.

HT - we have the 15th Feb week. Damn. Basically not France. Late Carnival makes Italy tempting.

The winner though is they break up for Easter in time for 29th march week. That could be the winner.
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Quote:

we can do 14th dec week. Should be quiet but will need altitude

And many smaller resorts in France won't be open that week. Don't know about other countries.
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For the south of NL the government advised holiday week is #9 but it is more likely that many of the schools in the south will go against that advice and have their holiday in week #10 as that is the carnaval week which is celebrated in the south.
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Lots of comments in the dolomites thread (https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=5241948#5241948) about mid Jan being very busy this year with Eastern (non EU so maybe not on chart ?) European visitors (including Russians whom I thought were not allowed ?).

Someone mentioned that some of those countries might have a school holiday in Jan ?
Certainly when I was in Kronplatz 14-21 Jan it was busier than I had expected and lots of accents, languages I couldn’t place with school age kids in tow …certainly some Russian.

Bigger sella ronda area (we parked at La Villa twice and armentarola once) seemed a little quieter …

I wonder does anyone have any further info on this ?
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sheffskibod wrote:
Lots of comments in the dolomites thread (https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=5241948#5241948) about mid Jan being very busy this year with Eastern (non EU so maybe not on chart ?) European visitors (including Russians whom I thought were not allowed ?).

Someone mentioned that some of those countries might have a school holiday in Jan ?
Certainly when I was in Kronplatz 14-21 Jan it was busier than I had expected and lots of accents, languages I couldn’t place with school age kids in tow …certainly some Russian.

Bigger sella ronda area (we parked at La Villa twice and armentarola once) seemed a little quieter …

I wonder does anyone have any further info on this ?


There’s mention of the Dolomites being busier than normal this month due to late changes from Germans, with poor conditions in their favoured resorts further north.
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You know it makes sense.
https://www.wintersport.nl/weblog/20/02/2024/drukke-weken-wintersportseizoen-20242025

For those who find this chart useful I found the link for next year. Shows quite a nice spread out half term (depending where you ski I guess)
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sheffskibod wrote:
Lots of comments in the dolomites thread (https://snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=5241948#5241948) about mid Jan being very busy this year with Eastern (non EU so maybe not on chart ?) European visitors (including Russians whom I thought were not allowed ?).

Someone mentioned that some of those countries might have a school holiday in Jan ?
Certainly when I was in Kronplatz 14-21 Jan it was busier than I had expected and lots of accents, languages I couldn’t place with school age kids in tow …certainly some Russian.

Bigger sella ronda area (we parked at La Villa twice and armentarola once) seemed a little quieter …

I wonder does anyone have any further info on this ?


The Sella Ronda including our hotel is packed this current week with Italian families with school age kids.

Yet all the school holiday graphics and websites show no Italian school holidays for any region.

Is this a carnival week with schools shut in Italy?
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How would January 4-11, 2025 be? It looks like all schools return on the 4th. Also, it’s the period right after Christmas/New Years so will things have calmed down?
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@Larzke, wlcome to snowheads. That's often the cheapest week of the season and as ushc can be very quiet - though we've notied that more than a few parents will take offspring on ski trips that week and perhaps pay a small fine, rather than pay the much higher premium for New Year
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Hi, based on the table at the top, should I be avoiding Italy for the week 1st to 8th March. If it is Carnaval week will the Italians be on holidays and therefore a greater number in ski resorts? I am looking at Canazei.
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